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Nice job, but come clean. Was this AI generated?
Nope! I thought about it, but I just started the first bit and kept going. If I had gotten stuck I would definitely have jumped to AI, but I didn't so here we are.
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I'm afraid you'll find far more non-literal uses of "stranded" than you will find literal ones if you looked at how humans actually use words. In fact, I'd be surprised if even 1 in 100 actual uses of the word in, say, 2023 matched the definition you've given. "Left by your friends in an empty car park? Well, there's technically an unlocked bicycle over there..."
I see this is a pointless conversation if we're now saying words don't mean what they mean. You do you.
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Yeah, "no one wants to outright explain what happened" is called "chilling effects" and is one of the explicit goals of an authoritarian regime like the one we have in the US now. Nobody wants to get fired and get death threats just for speaking plainly, so most people don't. Every once in awhile someone will decide it's worth the cost, but most people most of the time will decide it isn't.
Biden signed 162 executive orders. Is Trump somehow different here?
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I also think that calling von Braun a Nazi isn't necessarily correct. He worked for the Nazi party, but if he didn't it probably wouldn't have worked out very well for him, and I don't think he supported their ideals all that much. He also always wanted to make his rockets, and working at Peenemünde gave him the opportunity to do that, even if it did require PoW labour. Obviously I'm not saying he was a saint, but I…
FWIW I didn't mean to make any accusations about von Braun's character. I was taking "ex-Nazi engineer" to mean someone to had been an engineer in the Nazi regime. In fairness though, he was an NSDAP member.
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The President could theoretically muck around with decision making in all kinds of federal agencies. That doesn’t mean that the President’s administration is responsible for every technical decision made by every agency. If the NTSB fails to correctly identify the cause of an air accident, is that the President’s fault because the President nominates the board? Most people wouldn’t think so. They realise that as the…
Assigning blame and fault are a similar, but still different than being seen as responsible for something, but I'm actually don't care to do either (blame/fault or responsibility). The point I am making is perhaps just being taken as a semantics issue about the use of the word "administration", but NASA _is_ part of the president's administration, technically and practically. But I can see how someone could think "Bi…
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Yes. Did you? Since you are insisting, can you point to the part that supports your statement: "SpaceX offered to do it for free. Publicly." It will be kinder for you, to think you’re lying, than to suspect a deficit in judgment...
"Wilmore said he had no reason to doubt Musk’s claims about an offer to bring them home earlier" "Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said, “I think there may have been some conversations that I wasn’t part of.” But he said the option to fly a separate mission to the space station to retrieve the astronauts was “ruled out pretty quickly.” First hand sources: https://x.com/elonmusk/statu…
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1dxlopw/elo...
And an interview with the astronauts where no such offer is mentioned except by a Fox news presenter?
Uhau, just uhau....
I trust an actual Astronaut and an actual Engineer in Aerospace Engineering, and the first first pilot of a US spacecraft who was not a US citizen
One thing I'm confused by is that we need to do "reporting" to figure out what the truth is here. Can't we just ask the astronauts, or NASA, or something? Why is there no official statement on the matter? There's actually a video of Butch, from the station, saying Musk's description was "entirely factual" - although he then sort of backtracked that. Seems like no one wants to outright explain what happened.
NASA answered a number of direct questions on this during the crew-10 pressers. So they were asked directly. The problem is the Musk claim is that he took the offer directly to the White House, bypassing NASA. From the crew-10 pressers, NASA was completely unaware. I'd read the Butch quote very carefully: I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual. We have no information on that, though, whatso…
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Yes. Did you? Since you are insisting, can you point to the part that supports your statement: "SpaceX offered to do it for free. Publicly." It will be kinder for you, to think you’re lying, than to suspect a deficit in judgment...
"Wilmore said he had no reason to doubt Musk’s claims about an offer to bring them home earlier" "Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said, “I think there may have been some conversations that I wasn’t part of.” But he said the option to fly a separate mission to the space station to retrieve the astronauts was “ruled out pretty quickly.” First hand sources: https://x.com/elonmusk/statu…
> Wilmore said he had no reason to doubt Musk’s claims about an offer to bring them home earlier, though Wilmore said he was not privy to such an offer.
Which pretty much amounts to "I don't know, but I can't see why Musk would lie."
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I’m not sure why you feel the need to respond to me on multiple threads. As mentioned elsewhere, I am not the source of the common meaning of the term, I do not edit the encyclopaedia, the newspapers, take the photos or anything else you will see on the front page of Google when you search for “authoritarian regime”. You know what an authoritarian regime commonly means, and you know what you were trying to do, and yo…
Because you're responding about different things in different threads, so I'm responding to those responses. You're just wrong about the common meaning of the term, and you seem to think that just asserting the same thing over and over is somehow going to make you right about it, but it won't. And I'll keep pointing out that you're wrong about it as long as you keep repeating the same thing. I'm not being partisan. Y…
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I am not Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
No, you're just the person misrepresenting what it says.